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Trie-sur-Baïse

Trie-sur-Baïse

Dimensions
The Round Tower and the Square Tower of the fortifications of the 14th and 15th centuries; the church of Notre-Dame-des-Neiges, with a massive bell-tower surmounted by a Flamboyant Gothic spire; the church of the Carmelites, of southern Gothic, restored in 1992 as a cultural centre; the town hall, an imposing Empire building whose ground floor houses a market hall with Baltard-type extensions; the regular plan of the bastide around its square.
Period
Paréage of 1323, customs of 1325; taken by the Black Prince in 1355; rebuilding after 1363, Carmelites in 1365; church begun in 1444; monastery burned in 1569 and rebuilt in the 17th century.
What stands there
A royal paréage bastide with four partners, an enclave of the jugerie of Rivière-Verdun within the county of Armagnac until the Revolution. Its Carmelite cloister, bought before 1914 by George Grey Barnard, is today re-erected at the Cloisters museum in New York.

On the Baïse, on the borders of the Bigorre and the Astarac, Trie-sur-Baïse is one of those new towns called bastides, founded by a paréage contract signed in 1323 between Jean de Trie, seneschal of Toulouse and representative of the king, the lords of Duffort and of Puydarrieux and the abbot of L'Escaladieu; the town took the seneschal's name, and its customs of 1325 call it bastida de Tria. Besieged and taken by the Black Prince in 1355, pillaged, rebuilt after 1363, fortified and endowed with a citadel, two hospitals and a Carmelite convent founded in 1365, it knew its golden age in the 15th century, when in 1444 the church of Notre-Dame-des-Neiges, with its Flamboyant Gothic spire, was begun. There remain the Round and the Square towers of the fortifications, the Gothic church of the Carmelites, an Empire town hall housing a market hall and the memory of a cloister sold piece by piece and re-erected in New York, at the Cloisters.

Further reading

Getting there : Town freely accessible; the church of the Carmelites, now a cultural centre, opens according to its programme.

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